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We spend the hour with one of Latin America's most acclaimed writers, Eduardo Galeano. The Uruguayan novelist and journalist recently made headlines around the world when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a copy of Galeano's classic work, The Open Veins of Latin America. Eduardo Galeano's latest book is Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. We speak to Galeano about his reaction to the Chavez-Obama book exchange, media and politics in Latin America, his assessment of Obama, and more. [includes rush transcript]
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JUAN GONZALEZ: We're joined today for the hour by one of Latin America's most acclaimed writers, Eduardo Galeano. The Uruguayan novelist and journalist made headlines last month when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave President Barack Obama a copy of one of Galeano's books during a brief encounter at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago. The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent soon shot to near the top of the bestseller list.
Hugo Chavez later told reporters, quote, "This book is a monument in our Latin American history. It allows us to learn history, and we have to build on this history."
Since its publication in 1971, The Open Veins of Latin America has sold over a million copies worldwide, despite being banned in the 1970s by the military governments in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
AMY GOODMAN: In 1973, a military junta came to power in Uruguay. Eduardo Galeano was briefly, then he went into exile. He lived in Argentina and then Spain until 1984, when he returned to Uruguay. While in exile, he began writing his classic trilogy Memory of Fire, which rewrites five centuries of North and South American history.
The writer John Berger said of Galeano, quote, "To publish Eduardo Galeano is to publish the enemy: the enemy of lies, indifference, above all of forgetfulness. Thanks to him, our crimes will be remembered. His tenderness is devastating, his truthfulness furious."
Eduardo Galeano's latest book is called Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. He joins us today in our firehouse studio.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Hello, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: It's good to have you with us, Eduardo.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Good for me.
AMY GOODMAN: Stories of Almost Everyone is the subtitle.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Yes, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: "Almost everyone," what do you mean?
EDUARDO GALEANO: Well, it was — it sounded, I don't know, so solemn and serious to say "a universal history" or something like this. I'm not a historian. It was such a mad project. It was really a crazy adventure, trying to go beyond all the frontiers, all boundaries, boundaries of maps and time. It comes from 600 short stories trying to rebuild, to rediscover the human history from the point of view of the invisibles, trying to rediscover the terrestrial rainbow mutilated by racism and machismo and militarism and elitism and so many isms. That was the intention, at least, to speak about the nobodies from the nobodies' voices.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And why the short stories or the vignettes that you've increasingly gravitated to in recent decades? Why that form to express these huge stories?
EDUARDO GALEANO: I am fighting against inflation, not monetary inflation, but the inflation of words. So many words to say nothing. I am trying to say — to tell more with less. This is a challenge. And so, each one of the stories I tell has been written and rewritten ten times, fifteen times, I don't know how many times, 'til I get the words that really deserve to exist, which are the words that I feel are better than silence.
AMY GOODMAN: One of the things we want you to do this hour is just read some of these short stories. And you can't add any extra words. But before we do, when President Chavez of Venezuela handed President Obama of the United States Open Veins of Latin America, your classic work, what were your thoughts? And how did you find out about it? You weren't at the Summit of the Americas, were you?
EDUARDO GALEANO: I didn't know it. But I went to have my usual promenade with my dog Morgan, who's died recently — he died after that — one of our last promenades together. And I was surprised, because my neighbor said, "Congratulations, Eduardo. You are selling so much. You're a bestseller, Eduardo."
And I was horrified. Bestseller? I don't want to be sold. What's this? Something terrible must happened. What's this "congratulations, you're so successful"? I don't want to be successful. "What's this? Successful in the market?"
"Yes, you're the bestselling man now in the world. The world's so proud."
And it was terrible news for me. I don't want to be the first in the market. I just want to get in touch with people, writing.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, Chavez has become like the new Oprah now. You know, he did it for Noam Chomsky and made Noam Chomsky a bestseller. Now he's done it for you.
EDUARDO GALEANO: No, it was a generous action. And indeed, the book tends to be, out of so many — there's almost forty — sort of a symbol.
My style has changed a lot. Now I write in a very different way, but I'm not repentant of it, no estoy arrepentido, not at all, not a single comma, not a single period.
And I think it may be a useful book, yes, to understand how richness and poverty are intimately connected, and also freedom and slavery are intimately connected. And so, there are no richness really innocent of any poverty, and there are no freedom that hasn't — nothing to do to be with slavery.
This was the intention of the book, trying to interlink histories that have been before told separately and in this codified language of historians or economists or sociologists. And so, I tried to write it in such a way that it could be read and enjoyed by anyone. And that's why it lost the Casa de las Americas Prize, because a jury considered it was not serious. At that time, the left-wing intellectuals were sure that to be serious, you ought to be boring. And it was not boring, so it was not enough serious. Afterwards, fortunately for me, the military dictatorships considered it was quite serious, and they burned it. And this was my best publicity and my best marketing —-
JUAN GONZALEZ: Market tool.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we're going to break with some music of Victor Jara, back in the news now.
EDUARDO GALEANO: OK.
AMY GOODMAN: But when we come back, want to ask you if President Obama could read one of the stories in Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, which would you like him to read? Our guest today is Eduardo Galeano for the hour, the Uruguayan writer and journalist. He has a new book out; it's called Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. Stay with us.
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is Eduardo Galeano, the great writer and journalist. He is up from Uruguay. His new book is called Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan Gonzalez.
That question of Barack Obama being handed, by President Hugo Chavez, Open Veins of Latin America, your classic work, what you would like him to learn from this book, President Obama?
EDUARDO GALEANO: No, I don't want to teach anybody anything. Never. I even insisted last evening, when I was talking in that theater -—
AMY GOODMAN: At the Ethical Culture Society.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Yes — the fact that I would be glad if Obama and all the USA progressive governors or people here begin to change the word — the word "leadership" by the word "friendship," because leadership implies the resistance in someone over, above the other ones. And in the real human relationships, the real ones are horizontal, horizontal, not vertical; solidarity instead of charity; and no borders and no classes to receive from anyone, because the Northern world acts as if God would made them the teachers of the South, and they are taking examination all the time. To Venezuela, for instance, is it really democratic country? We'll decide, because we are the teachers on democracy.
And paradoxically, the teachers on democracy are the factories of military dictatorships. I mean, the United States, and not only the United States, also some European countries, have spread military dictatorships all over the world. And they feel as if they are able to teach democracy.
So I don't want to teach anything to anybody. I just want to tell stories deserve to be told. That's all.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, tell us a story of Open Veins before we get to readings of Mirrors.
EDUARDO GALEANO: It's a funny story. I have — yeah, I may tell the — when you were saying that the best promotion for Open Veins were the military dictatorships, which prohibited it and burned it, but in Uruguay, something really strange happened. In the first months of the military dictatorship, Open Veins entered freely in the military jails, because the censors looking at the title, Open Veins of Latin America, thought it was a textbook on anatomy, a textbook on anatomy. And so, the medicine books were not forbidden, and the books enter during five or six months. And afterward —-
JUAN GONZALEZ: 'Til somebody read it.
EDUARDO GALEANO: —- they noticed that something was not exactly that.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And when you say this issue of leadership, Latin America obviously has changed dramatically, and the American people, in their election, they more or less sort of followed a trend that was already going on in Latin America. Your own country has changed dramatically. Can you talk about that, what has happened now that there are the —-
EDUARDO GALEANO: There is a new energy, which is not new at all. I think that history never ends. Some histories inside history have no happy ends, unhappy ends. But history doesn't end. She's a stubborn lady, and she goes on walking, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing. But it never ends. When histories say goodbye, history is really saying, "See you. See you later. See you soon." So this is like a subterranean river, who went on flowing and nowadays is reappearing with a very important energy coming from people, from the [inaudible] river -— how is it? From —-
JUAN GONZALEZ: Below to above.
EDUARDO GALEANO: —- below to above, yes, and not on the other side, on the other way.
AMY GOODMAN: Trickle up, not trickle down.
EDUARDO GALEANO: I have an engineer friend of mine who said, "Lo único que se hace desde arriba son los pozos," "The only thing that you can make from up to down are holes." And it's true. All the other things are made are created from the bottom. And that's the way it's going to be done, and it's already going on doing in several Latin American countries, which is good news, indeed, for the world.
AMY GOODMAN: Eduardo Galeano, can you read from Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone? You choose.
EDUARDO GALEANO: I begin with the story of this cover. I mean, what's this? This image, so beautiful image. Where does it come from? And what does it mean? And the story is inside the book on page 267, I think. Yeah, 267.
"West African sculptors have always sung while they worked. And they do not stop singing until their sculptures are finished. That way the music gets inside the carvings and keeps on singing.
"In 1910, Leo Frobenius found ancient sculptures on the Slave Coast that made his eyes bulge.
"Their beauty was such that the German explorer believed they were Greek, brought from Athens, or perhaps from the lost Atlantis. And his colleagues agreed: Africa, daughter of scorn, mother of slaves, could not have produced such marvels like this one.
"But it did, though. And those music-filled effigies had been sculpted a few centuries previous in the bellybutton of the world, in Ife, the sacred place where the Yoruba gods gave birth to women and men.
"Africa turned out to be an unending wellspring of art worth celebrating. And worth stealing.
"It seems Paul Gaugin, a rather absent-minded fellow, but his name on a couple of sculptures from the Congo. And the error was contagious. From then on Picasso, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, Ernst, Moore, and many other European artists made the same mistake, and did so with alarming frequency.
"Pillaged by its colonial masters, Africa would never know how responsible it was for the most astonishing achievements in twentieth-century European art."
JUAN GONZALEZ: One of the amazing things to me in your writing is how you're able to get a nugget of historical fact that has been largely overlooked by others and then weave it into a story that really sort of shines a spotlight on an aspect of human conflict that others have not paid attention to. One that struck me especially was the origin of concentration camps that you wrote, which relates very much to the last one you wrote, about Africa. I'm wondering if you could read that one.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Concentration camps, yes. Let me see where it is. 243, yes. This is also an unknown story, because this book is made — comes from 600 unknown stories, or at least not so known as they deserve to be, because they're stories about the invisibles, women, black, Indians, the South of the world, China India. Who knows? Who knows? We are much more than we are told we are and we were told we are, the human terrestrial rainbow with so many colors, mutilated, mutilated by racism. And this is another story about racism. When Obama was elected, I wrote an article, months ago, remembering that the White House was built by black hands and asking him, please, do not forget it, never, never. So this is about the origin of concentration camps.
"When Namibia won its independence in 1990, the main avenue of the capital city still bore the name Goring. Not for Hermann, Hermann Goring, the Nazi, but in honor of his father, Heinrich Goring, one of the perpetrators of the first genocide in the twentieth century.
"That Goring, who represented the German Empire in the south-west corner of Africa, kindly approved in 1904 an annihilation order given by General Lothar von Trotta." [inaudible] General Lothar von Trotta was the grandfather or father of this great German movie director, cinema director, Margarethe von Trotta, which is a source of optimism, because it should prove that humankind is not doomed to decay, I mean, that we may improve the quality of our products. Well, "an annihilation order given by General Lothar von Trotta."
"The Hereros, black shepherds" — shefferds or shepherds?
JUAN GONZALEZ: Shepherds.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Shepherds — "had risen up in rebellion. And the colonial authorities expelled them all and warned that any Herero found in Namibia, man, woman, or child, armed or unarmed, would be killed.
"Of every four Hereros, three were killed, by cannon fire or the desert sun.
"The survivors of the butchery ended up in concentration camps set up by Goring. And Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow pronounced for the very first time the word 'concentration camp' in German language [Konzentrationslager].
"The camps, inspired by a British forerunner in South Africa, combined confinement, forced labor, and scientific experimentation. The prisoners, emaciated from a life in the gold and diamond mines, served as human guinea pigs for research into inferior races. And in those laboratories worked Theodor Mollison and Eugen Fischer, who later became the teachers of Josef Mengele.
"Mengele carried forth their work as of 1933, the year that Goring, Goring the son, set up the first concentration camps in Germany, following the model his father pioneered in Africa."
This is one of the many unknown stories that I think we should remember, for obvious reasons, because if you don't know your past, you are doomed to repeat it. It's an old proverb, but it's true.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you about President Obama, a little more about him. We recently had on the Pan-Africanist scholar Ali Mazrui, who's a Kenyan scholar, a chancellor at a Kenyan school and also at Binghamton University in New York. He said Barack Obama has become "the most powerful single black individual in the history of civilization." What about the significance of Barack Obama becoming president?
EDUARDO GALEANO: Well, it's a very important — a very important victory in a long, long and difficult and painful fight against racism, especially in this country, in the United States.
Here in the book, I tell some stories, unknown or almost unknown, happened fifteen minutes ago in historical terms. For instance, in 1942, 1942, the Pentagon, when the United States was entered in the Second World War, the Pentagon forbade, prohibited the transfusions of black blood. And at that time, the director of the plasma bank in the Red Cross was a scientific called Charles Drew, and he denied the order. He denied to obey it, saying it's stupid. Such a thing, such a thing, black blood, does not exist. Blood is red; it's not black. Blood is red. And he knew what it was he was speaking about. He was almost the inventor of the plasma, or at least the scientific who made it possible. He saved million of lives in the Second World War. But besides being a scientific of very high reputation, he was black. And he was black. And so, he was not — he knew perfectly well what he was speaking about, and that's why he resigned or was resigned. And this happened just a while ago, it's yesterday.
So it's very important, the fact that Obama is now president of the United States, being, as he is, black or half-black, no? The problem is that nobody is better or worse for being black or white, like — this book also, Mirrors, contains a lot of stories about women, this half of humanity. I don't know why called a minority. I'm not strong in mathematics, but how half of humanity may be a minority? And I tell a lot of stories that are badly known or unknown. Then, my friends —- I have some terribly perverse friends, saying, "Well, now the system gave you as a gift that wonderful woman called Condoleezza Rice." And I say, "Well, yes, it's true, because a woman is not better than a man or a man better than a woman. We are all made, you know, half-garbage and half-marble, half-beauty and half—[expletive]." But we should have the same opportunities. And that's a problem. The discrimination have condemned so many people to be invisible. And this book tries to recover their memories and to recover their presence.
The fact that Obama is black is very important in the fight against racism, but it's also a challenge. I mean, he should prove that blacks can do it better than whites, like women in power, which is unfortunately not the case of Margaret Thatcher, for instance. But they are at least — at least Margaret Thatcher had the opportunity to show it. And sometimes I think Obama is doing it well, and sometimes not. But it must be very difficult for him.
Yesterday I said perhaps he's lost in the bush, and meaning that there is all this war machine, for instance. He improved the war budget. He improved it. In the campaign, he was promising a quite different attitude. But he ended raising the war budget, which is mysteriously named in the United States "defense budget." I don't know defense against who, because the last time this country was invaded was in 1812. Well, later there was a short invasion by Pancho Villa, but this was almost nothing, I mean. And I believe we should — we should propose a new model of world, not consecrated to this human passion of killing each other. We are the only animal specialized in mutual extermination.
By the way, advertising, I'm a member of a vast movement working for a big giant march for peace and against violence on October 2 in all countries, in all countries. And I hope we may have millions and millions of feet walking in the whole planet, in all cities, in all parts of the world, against the war, against this crazy mad world living against itself, this big factory of death that the world is nowadays. Each minute, each minute, the last official figures say, each minute, the world gives, each minute, $3 million to military expenses, $3 million per minute for military expenses, for the industry of death. And each minute, fifteen children die from hunger or curable diseases. So we'll march against it, because we believe another world is possible.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Eduardo Galeano, and we're going to be back with him in a minute.
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is the great writer Eduardo Galeano. His most celebrated book, decades ago, Open Veins of Latin America. President Chavez of Venezuela just gave it to Barack Obama. Well, he's out with a new book, and it's called Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. And he doesn't come to this country very much, so we're very glad to have him in our studio for the hour. Juan?
JUAN GONZALEZ: Eduardo, I'd like to ask you — our show yesterday was about President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, born here in the United States of Puerto Rican parents. And I know you have over the years expressed yourself on the status of Puerto Rico itself. I think 2007 you joined with Garcia Marquez and other Latin American writers, calling for Puerto Rico's sovereignty. Could you let our listeners and viewers know how in Latin America this relationship of Puerto Rico and the United States is viewed?
EDUARDO GALEANO: It's viewed, yes, as a colonial remain, a shameful situation, because Puerto Rico should be independent, obviously, as Guantanamo should be part of Cuba instead of being a colonial enclave consecrated to torture people. Obviously, yes. These are remains of all past times. And the worst thing about this is that there are so many people everywhere trained to accept these situations like normal, and they are not normal at all. So I'm a friend of this stubborn, marvelous Puerto Rican people, women, men, that they fight for their right to freedom and independence. They are a minority of minorities, I know. But this is something — speak — to speak for them and not against, because it's very easy to be on the side of the majorities.
The problem is when you are telling the truth and you are almost alone. That's the situation of so many, so many gullible persons and movements in the world. And we are prisoners of a dominant culture, who punished the failure instead of rewarding success and obliging each one to be successful. We are trained to consider the other one as a competitor, as a menace, as an enemy, not as a promise. The world is very well designed to change.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about the state of Latin America today, and particularly about the media in Latin America? I mean, you were the editor of Crisis magazine.
AMY GOODMAN: It was censored. You decided the magazine should not publish —-
EDUARDO GALEANO: Yeah, yes, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: —- in the time of censorship.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Yeah, I was working for several magazines and newspapers, and this Crisis was a very nice experience. It was a cultural magazine, consecrated to cultural subjects and items.
AMY GOODMAN: In Argentina?
EDUARDO GALEANO: In Argentina, when I was in exile. Once a month, a very, very beautiful magazine who sold about 35,000, 40,000 copies, which is a record in the Spanish language, because we could diffuse a new conception of culture. Instead of repeating the old story about culture being the specialized work of artists and perhaps scientists, we tried to recover culture as a collective expression of identity.
And so, we were talking to people, but also hearing what people had to say, in the walls with the graffitis, in the factories. We went with recorders trying to ask what they thought, for instance, the worker thought about the sun, because we were speaking to workers that never saw the sun, except on Sundays. They were working the whole day. Or to the drivers, the bus drivers, who sometimes were working in Argentina that years, fifteen, twenty hours per day. It was unbelievable. So, with our records — registers, no? Grabadoras
AMY GOODMAN: Tape recorders.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Tape recorder, tape recorders. We went there, asking them, "When you can sleep, what do you dream? What are your dreams? Do you have dreams? Nightmares?" And this was culture for us also. So it was a quite an original experience, really strange. And it was very, very successful, 'til first the economy and later the dictatorship finished it. And when words cannot be better than silence, it's better to shut up.
JUAN GONZALEZ: But now there is — in many Latin American countries, you have, on the one hand, the huge media giants, Globovision, Venevision and these others.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Yeah.
JUAN GONZALEZ: But you also have all this community media now. I think in Uruguay in 2007, they passed la Ley de Radiodifusion Comunitaria —-
JUAN GONZALEZ: —- for community media. What is the impact of these community media operations now on the people?
EDUARDO GALEANO: Yes. Now it improved a lot, because community radios and even TV had been persecuted and chased and prohibited during years and years and years, but now they're spreading all over the region, and they are very successful. And they can tell the other side of — like Democracy Now! — the other side of events and other — you know, there is a private property of news like there is a private property of memory, a private property of the right to talk, to the right to say, to the right to be heard. And against this monopoly, which is an enemy of democracy, we have some democratic answers coming from the bottom of society, from people themselves, saying themselves, telling themselves.
And this is quite important. It's a change. Usually even some left-wing intellectuals used to believe that people, normal people, ordinary people, workers, were only able to repeat the voices of the masters, they were only able to have echoes, not voices. But they do have voices. Even my friends, my close friends, from the priests of the theology of liberation, when they say, "We are the voice of those who have no voice," it's a big mistake. Everybody has a voice. The problems is that they cannot be heard. But everybody has something to say that deserves to be heard, perhaps celebrated, perhaps at least forgiven.
AMY GOODMAN: You were a pallbearer in the last weeks for the great writer Mario Benedetti —-
AMY GOODMAN: —- who died at the age of eighty-eight, a fellow Uruguayan.
AMY GOODMAN: What did Mario Benedetti mean to you? What was your relationship with him?
EDUARDO GALEANO: Well, he was very generous with me, a very generous person, since I began writing. I was lucky with the old writers, twenty, thirty years older when I — when I began writing, I received help from Benedetti, from Onetti also. They were patient and generous with me. And Mario was especially generous, like Julio Cortazar, for instance, strange rara avis, strange specimen —-
AMY GOODMAN: Specimen.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Specimen.
EDUARDO GALEANO: —- in the writers' — in the writers' community, because if the world is a zoo, we should be in the jail reserved for, I would say, pavos reales, peacocks, right? Pavos reales?
JUAN GONZALEZ: Pavos reales, real —-
EDUARDO GALEANO: The pavos reales are the turkey.
JUAN GONZALEZ: The turkey.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Yeah, but the turkey with this beautiful, colorful -—
AMY GOODMAN: Plume.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Peacock.
EDUARDO GALEANO: — feathers.
EDUARDO GALEANO: The peacocks? So, the peacocks. We will be in the jail of peacocks. And each victory is not celebrated. When you find a colleague in the street, "How are things going?" Then, if he says, "Fine. Great. Great. You can't imagine," then a liver attack is happening, and you can see it. The face turns green. You need immediately a doctor, an urgent service from a doctor. And Mario Benedetti or Julio Cortazar were able to celebrate other one's success. They were very generous, both of them.
AMY GOODMAN: We just have a minute, and you have just recovered from cancer and lost half your lung.
AMY GOODMAN: In this last minute, what gave you hope and strength to battle your own cancer?
EDUARDO GALEANO: What gave me strength, to write. I wrote Mirrors. It was an answer to this challenge. Perhaps we are always challenged by death, by the certitude that someday we will die. It's true. It's our destiny. But also, the possibility of doing some things, I mean, to go on believing that there is a possible way of stay alive in your queridos querientes, in the people you loved and were loved by.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, thank you for sharing this book and your recovery with us through Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. Thank you, Eduardo Galeano, for being in the studio with us.
EDUARDO GALEANO: Thank you, Amy.
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Nice work on the videos.
Feel sorry to the guys that lost to the Cheetah tho.
Tournament Director's attitude ran everyone off.
Great job as always Danno and Team!
Hope to see more teams jumping in these next year. Very fun bunch of guys and the pay outs are the best going.
Yeah but you don't schedule a "frog" event the weekend before at the same venue as a established tournament that has been on the same weekend for 15+ years.
Or instead of fishing the Knock Off Frog tournament..... You could fish the Original Frog tourney. The Snag Proof Open is Aug 4th & 5th.
Topic: Does anyone know what area the delta pellet boats are launching out of!
Re: Does anyone know what area the delta pellet boats are launching out of!
Next one is June 30th. Come on out.
$120 shipped for the curado?
Pissed Dish dropped the Outdoor channel from my package. Any other way to watch?
AND... Have the TOC on the Delta!
Topic: 2007 Ranger Z20 W/2011 Pro XS $21,000!!
Re: 2007 Ranger Z20 W/2011 Pro XS $21,000!!
Great fish, but I'm pretty sure it requires 13 (thirTEEN) to be a teener..
TD ran everyone off.. First rule of a business is customer service.
You know those sell for $200+ right?
Look at the payout on these guys! This is with 30 boats.. Lets get these up to 40+ and then see the payout.
Live in Brentwood work in SF. Can meet anywhere in-between.
It's this one. I'll sell it for $200 but you have to come get it in Brentwood. Too heavy to ship.
Great day to catch a giant.
Great Job Dan! 30 boats when there was another major event going on. Hope to see 40 boats at the next one!
Does anyone have the results with payout??
Used to catch these off of the Rio Vista pier back in the late 70's. Always wondered why no one catches them now.. Must have been a drought back then.


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Queen Rhapsody review: a great tribute to one of the best British rock bands
Danielle Booden
Published: 1:22 PM January 14, 2020
Queen Rhapsody. Picture: MRC Presents/Norwich Theatre Royal - Credit: MRC Presents/Norwich Theatre Royal
Queen Rhapsody, a show dedicated to giving fans a chance to experience in parts what a Queen show would have been like, came to Norwich last night.
Put on by MRC Presents, this show sees UK Queen, formerly known as Rhapsody Queen, aiming to deliver a night that replicates Queen's shows both in sound and vision. Queen Rhapsody is a two-hour high energy show packed with classic hit after hit.
This tribute was formed out of a love for re-producing Queen's top hits with top musicians. Alexander Koronka (Al) fronts his hand picked live band as 'Freddie Mercury' and has performed from the Queen songbook for well over a decade to audiences across the globe - including Malta, India, The Middle East, Scandinavia, the UK and throughout Europe.
UK Queen seek to create a musical 'experience'. Koronka's desire is not just to faithfully reproduce Queen's greatest hits, but to expand an audience's musical journey by introducing them to the magnificent and broad song book of Queen.
Going in to last night's show having read very little information on it meant it was anyone's guess as to what was going to unfold over the course of the evening.
Was it going to be a full stage theatrical show or was it going to be some tacky tribute to easily one of the UK's greatest ever rock bands. Thankfully this show took it's place somewhere in the middle of these two extremities doing exactly what it said on the tin - bringing to life some of the magic you would have expected from a Queen show.
The first half of the show seemed to lack lustre in some parts feeling a little bit over dramatised. Perhaps this was down to nerves but there were moments when replicating Freddie Mercury's flamboyant stage persona felt forced and overplayed. This is not to say the first half wasn't enjoyable because it absolutely was aided by incredible performances from the accompanying musicians.
By the second half Koronka seemed to have really settled into the show and pulled off, both vocally and in terms of performance, an uncanny tribute to the much-missed legend. A large chunk of this half was made up of Queen's Live Aid performance which had the audience on their feet belting out the words to some of their most popular songs.
The crowd interaction was on point during this half of the show and you really saw Koronka shine up on stage. Multiple notes that he managed to hit, in true Freddie Mercury style, left me with goosebumps as for a split it was easy to forget he wasn't the real deal.
Myself and fans alike will never get the chance to see Queen live with Freddie Mercury but this show was a fun and entertaining way to get a glimpse into what this would have been like.
If you're looking for a fun night out then try and catch Queen Rhapsody at another venue - it is a great tribute to one of the best British rock bands.
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The city's Division of Environmental Services works with the Lucas County Local Emergency Planning Committee and the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments to provide municipal facilities employees with mandatory annual Emergency Response Awareness training through the Pollution Prevention Good/Housekeeping Emergency Response Awareness Program. The purpose of this training is to provide employees with the basic understanding of how to use their spill response equipment and spill containment techniques to cleanup and prevent materials from entering catch basins and/or leaving a site. The training also teaches employees to recognize and differentiate between spills that can be handled by onsite personnel and those that require outside assistance. Proper disposal requirements for spent materials are also discussed. This training is a key element of the city's Stormwater Management Program, which aims to protect water quality by improving municipal or facility operations.
Maintaining an emergency response program and providing all employees at municipal facilities with emergency response training helps to ensure that the city is prepared to protect sources of drinking water in the event of a spill or other emergency within city limits. These efforts drive progress toward the Source Water Initiative's third goal of ensuring that effective systems for spill prevention and response are accessible and in use by diverse stakeholders.


Producer and engineer Chris Shepard has added a pair of ADAM Audio S2V monitors to his American Mobile Studio, which has been traveling around the U.S. for over a decade.
Chicago, IL (August 9, 2017)—Producer and engineer Chris Shepard has added a pair of ADAM Audio S2V monitors to his American Mobile Studio, which has been traveling around the U.S. for over a decade.
"I have tried a variety of speakers in the remote truck, which is essentially like being in a big box. The ADAM S2Vs provide that accurate balance of size and sound pressure level making a comfortable listening environment for me and for my clients," says Shepard.
A typical season for American Mobile kicks off in early March in Austin, TX, with SXSW and a week of live broadcast for Pandora before moving on to California for the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals; Tennessee for Bonnaroo (14th consecutive year); and Delaware for Firefly Festival. In July, the truck visits Pitchfork in Chicago and then Panorama Music Festival in New York. The American Mobile crew returns to Chicago in August for Lollapalooza, followed by San Francisco for Outside Lands. The fall leg includes two weeks at the Austin City Limits Music Festival and wraps up in New Orleans with Voodoo.


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Q: Is putting variables from .env/.ini/ in Enum good? According to PEP 435 Enum class is
An enumeration is a set of symbolic names bound to unique, constant values.
Within an enumeration, the values can be compared by identity, and the enumeration itself can be iterated over.

Should we store variables from .env, .ini or environmental variables in such a class, or is it overkill?
from enum import Enum
from decouple import config

class Constants(Enum):
    username = config('DATABASE_USERNAME')
    password = config('DATABASE_PASSWORD')
    host = config('DATABASE_HOST')
    port = config('DATABASE_HOST', cast=int)

Is the above a good idea in the ,,art of code''? Or maybe the better approach is to call each time config function whenever we need that variable in code?

A: If the configuration values do not change during the run of the program -- in other words, they are constant while the program is running -- and you want to be able to access them is
do_a_thing(Constants.host.value, Constants.port.value)
then sure, there's nothing wrong with doing it that way.

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Ex-PM calls for release of Nepali national arrested in India
Ilam, Aug. 19: Former Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal has demanded immediate release of a Nepali youth, who arrested in India while he was there for medical treatment of his mother.
The UML leader called Nepali Ambassador to India Dip Kumar Upadhyay over the telephone on Friday and urged him to take the initiative to have Udayahang Fago,27, a resident of Suryodaya municipality-10, Ilam released, as he was innocent, according to Khanal's personal secretary Krishna Bhattarai. Ambassador Upadhyay, in response, said that talks were being held with the Indian central government and concerned authorities in that regard.
Leader Khanal has also requested to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to talk to the concerned Indian agency to have Fago released. Fago was arrested by Indian police from Siliguri in West Bengal of India, where he had gone for medical treatment of his mother at the local family clinic. RSS


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ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741): Paris Concerti for Strings and Continuo No. 1 in G Minor, RV 157, No. 3 in C Minor, RV 119 & No. 5 in C, RV 114, Concertos for Bassoon, Strings and Continuo in F, RV 488, for Violin, Strings and Continuo in C, RV 185, for Flute, Strings, Bassoon and Continuo in G, RV 438 (late version), for Flute, Violin, Bassoon and Continuo in F, RV 100, for Violin, Strings and Continuo in D, RV 211, Concerto fragments for Bassoon, Strings and Continuo in C, RV 468 and for Flute, Strings and Continuo in E Minor, RV 432.
Label: Avie
Description: Loosely constructed around the theme of Vivaldi's connections with France and French music, this includes two fragments whose RV numbers collectors might want to check. Katy Bircher (flute), Peter Whelan (bassoon), La Serenissima; Adrian Chandler (violin).


This Tuscan Chicken Skillet is so easy to put together but tastes like it took all day. The cannellini beans turn this skillet dish into a one-pan meal by adding extra protein and bulk!
Don't you just love one-pan meals?
Just the sheer joy of only having one pan to wash overwhelms me. In our house, dishes are the enemy. No matter how many dishes we wash, there always seem to be more. Sometimes I wonder if they are secretly multiplying behind my back.
It probably doesn't help that I have a compulsive shopping problem when it comes to anything kitchen-related.
I just love when something delicious is also healthy, don't you?
Start by browning your chicken on both sides until it's nice and caramelized.
Remove the chicken from your pan, then add your mushrooms in batches so you can brown them all in a single layer. Once browned on both sides, spoon them out of the pan and set them aside.
Saute some onions, garlic, and sun-dried tomatoes, then add in the canned fire-roasted tomatoes, beans, and fragrant spices.
Add the chicken back in, cover the pan, and let simmer until the chicken is cooked through.
Return the mushrooms to the pan and garnish with fresh parsley.
Dish it up and pour yourself a glass of wine. You deserve it, really. You've been washing a lot of dishes lately.
In my experience, this dish is best eaten while watching really trashy television. Does anyone still eat at the dinner table? I keep telling myself that the husband and I will migrate back to the dining room once we have some kids.
I think it's important to teach your kids to eat in the dining room. You know, so they can grow up and eat in their own living rooms someday.
. I'm not sure what about it makes it as an "Everyday Pan", but I'll admit that I do use this pan ALL the time. I love that it has two handles! Plus, it's super easy to clean which makes it even better in my book.
Add the onion and sauté for 3 minutes. Add the garlic, and sundried tomatoes. Sauté for 2 minutes. Stir in the oregano, thyme, beans, diced tomatoes, and sugar.
Made this tonite, tripled recipe , used 3 lbs tenders , used all low sodium ingredients, used garbanzo beans instead of cannel ini and subbed a yellow pepper instead of sugar, came out delicious !
My family loved this, and my husband said he would gladly order it in a restaurant. Thanks for all the flavorful and healthy recipes. I discovered your blog in recent months and have been enjoying a number of things posted.
Anetta we had this for dinner last night and it was a hit! As I was cooking, you could hear my husband coming up the hall to see what it was. It made the house smell wonderful. And one dish is AWESOME. This one's going in my files for sure. Thanks!
I stumbled across your blog on pinterest and decided to try this last night. It was absolutely delicious and super easy! Keep 'em coming.
I will surely try this, it looks fantastic, and yes we almost always eat at the table even cereals. Our daughter loves setting the table with serviettes, glasses and even flowers. We've been married for almost 22 years and never owned a TV. To busy being family, children keeps you busy.
Hi, Debbie! I love hearing about couples who have been married for many years :) Thanks for the comment!
I just made thus for dinner, delicious and my 5 and 3 year old cleaned their plates! Thank you for sharing! Any idea how many calories?
I am not sure how I stumbled upon this, but it's usually a share from RecipeGirl on Facebook...maybe not, but WOW. This was easy, fun and so incredibly tasty! I LOVED IT! I am going to make lots of your recipes now, because as I was cooking this I had time to look at your recipes and I think they look amazing!
Awesome, Denise! I'm so glad you liked it. Enjoy the recipes!
Looks fantastic ! Can't wait to give it a try.... One question, do you use dried sundried tomatoes or the ones packed in oil?
Hi, Leah! I use the dried version. Thanks for asking!
I made this last night and what a treat! The one pan feature is great. We only used 1 can of the tomatoes as there is just the two of us and it came out perfect. Anymore 1 pan recipes you can give us will be greatly appreciated.
Hello, This looks wonderful...can't wait to try it! One question though, did you serve it with pasta or just alone?
I served it alone! The beans and tomatoes were plenty of extra food for us. Pasta would be delicious with it, too!
We had this for dinner tonight and it was amazing!!! I found the recipe on Pinterest and I am so glad I came to see the source because I love your blog :) Lots of great recipes and your pictures are stunning.
This looks so yummy! I'm curious though... would you serve with any sides or pasta?
Hi, Becky! I served it as-is, because the beans and tomatoes add enough bulk. A salad or steamed broccoli would be a great side dish!
I made this last night and it was awesome. I added a splash of fat free half and half to give it some sauce. This one is a keeper!
Awesome!! I'm so glad to hear it - thanks for dropping by!!
We made this tonight and It was okay, but not really my cup of tea. I'm not a big tomato fan. We also messed up and bought bruschetta instead of sundries tomatoes. It was a little soupy and I drained the liquid off. I'd still give this a thumbs up on ease and healthiness though! I'm anxious to try your other recipes!
Thanks for the inspiration. I made this dish over the weekend and it was quite delightful.
For those of you wondering about the nutritional information, I calculated that there are approximately 409.25 calories in 1 serving (1/4) the recipe.
I want to make this for my family for dinner tonight. Do you have any suggestions for what to have with it as a side? Or is this enough all by its self?Thanks!
Hi Anetta---This looks fantastic! I am not a huge mushroom fan (texture freaks me out). Any suggestions about what to replace them with for this recipe? I thought maybe broccoli or squash? Would love some advice. Thanks!
Hi, Debbie! I bet some sliced summer squash would be delicious here - try browning it in a separate pan, then adding it to the finished dish. Squash can release a lot of liquid, and you don't want the dish to get watered down. Enjoy!
Any guess on nutritional info?
Hi, Nicole! I think that a reader in a previous comment calculated the calories in 1 serving. You could also try an online nutritional calculator if you'd like more information!
Looks OMG! Just saw it on Pinterest and am re-pinning!
This was so not good. I was very disappointed. Very bland.
Hi, Patty. I'm sorry to hear it wasn't to your liking! My husband and I really enjoyed it, as well as many of my other readers. It's very important to get a good caramelization on the chicken, which adds a lot of flavor. Adding enough salt to your liking will also help. If you like really bold, flavorful recipes, I'd suggest you try my Indian Mulligatawny Soup (https://thewanderlustkitchen.com/2013/10/11/indian-mulligatawny-soup/). It's delicious!
I have found that whenever I make a recipe, I never measure out the seasonings and I almost always add more than what is called for. One of my keys to successful meals is to taste and adjust as you go! Also, I would suggest layering the seasonings. In this dish, I seasoned the chicken with pepper, thyme, oregano, and Emeril's original Essence. Then I added a bit more pepper when I was cooking the mushrooms and again when I was cooking the onions and garlic. It definitely added a more flavorful punch.
This dish -Tuscan Chicken- has become the family favorite. It gets better each time I make it!! We Love It!
Thank you, Anetta! I made this recipe tonight and my husband and I LOVED it! I did make a few changes with seasoning (I'm a big fan of eyeballing it, and I added a few extras) and I added a bit of red wine while it was simmering. We served it over pasta and with some fresh baked bread, and OMG, foodgasm! I'll definitely make this a part of my regular meal rotation!
Mmm, red wine sounds fantastic in this! It's so great that you can eyeball your seasonings - we all have slightly different taste buds and palates, so you know best what will work for you!
This is supper tonight! Took the red wine suggestion and it is absolutely wonderful!!
Love this, Diane! I'm so glad you and your family liked it!
I am making this for dinner this week. I am going to add a jar or quartered artichoke hearts. We love them and I think it would be delish in this recipe. Might add a splash of red wine as well, as one of your other tasters did. Thanks for the inspiration!
That's a great idea, Krista! I love artichoke hearts, too.
I made this for dinner tonight and it was a huge hit with the husband. I used thighs which I browned with flour, salt and pepper before hand. Also added some chopped red bell pepper. And after sautéing the onions I deglazed the pot with some white wine. I followed the rest of the instructions and the dish came out perfectly.Mine didn't come as vibrant as your version but I think it was the flour that thickened the sauce and made it a little darker. Will definitely make again!
Oooh, I bet that the thick sauce was delicious, Georgina!
I can't find cannellini beans. I bought navy beans as a substitute. Wish me luck!
Navy beans should work just fine, Jessica!
we made this recipe and it was pretty tasty. The best part was the chicken, mushrooms and liquid from the pan. We were not huge fans of the rest of the dish, but were not disheartened. We were inspired. We took the vegetable portion of the dish, along with some white wine and chicken stock, and poured it in our smaller le creuset pot. We then pureed the ingredients with a hand mixer. The result was a vert delicious bisque. Thank you for not one tasty meal, but two.
Hi, Walter! What a smart idea :) We all have such different palates, it's great that you were able to make something that suited your tastes!
Mmmm this was delicious, thank you! My husband loved it and kept asking for more :) I cooked enough for 2 days but we ended up finishing it in one go :) I changed the recipe a little bit, I used regular tomatoes instead of sun dried and used chicken breast strips, and the rest I sticked to the the recipe. It tasted great with garlic bread on the side! It was "Lekker"! as we say it in Netherlands!!!
I tried this recipe tonight. It was easy to make, healthy and family friendly. It's also gluten and dairy free! I served it with brown rice and roasted broccoli. I'll definitely keep this one in the 3-ring recipe binder to make again.Adaptations I made: No one in our family is particularly fond of mushrooms. So, I left those out. I also excluded the sugar. I didn't see why it was needed and it was just fine without it. I think adding in baby spinach leaves before serving (stirring in so they wilt) would be a great addition worth trying.
Hi, Rose! I'm glad to hear you found a way to make this recipe your own! My sister hates mushrooms, too, so I would leave them out if making this for her. The sugar is added to offset the acidity from the canned tomatoes. It helps to get rid of that canned-tomato taste!
Seriously awesome! This dish was easy to make and SO DELICIOUS! I used boneless skinless chicken thighs because that's what I had, and sun dried tomatoes in oil, because I had an open jar. My husband and I both loved it. I appreciate the one dish meals, although I still had a couple of dishes to wash after browning the chicken and then the mushrooms, but it was so worth it. Looking forward to making this often. Thanks!
This is on the stove right now... I love all the combo of ingredients! Also, I'm married without kids (yet) and totally agree with you about watching tv and eating! hahah, it's like my ultimate comfort zone. I'll never tell my kids, but will do it when they're out of the house!cheers!
i just made this for dinner after our Broncos won the game against the Raiders. Smells terrific, added a bit more garlic and some italian herb mixture, now it's bubbling away. I'm going to put Asiago cheese on top before I serve it, along with some italian bread, and a glass or two of good red wine. Can't wait. Thanks so much for posting this recipe.
Made this tonight, with the addition of some black olives. Hubby and I both loved it! easy, tasty, healthy - will definitely be making this again.
Made this for Saturday supper - hubby and I both loved it! I added some pitted, whole black olives, used only one can of tomatoes (for just two people), and halved the sugar. Didn't have beans on hand, so served it over pasta. Delish! Will be making again, with beans and some good crusty bread to soak up the sauce. And yes, a glass of Italian red is required.
Hi I just made this and it was a hit! I doubled the ingredients because I made it for 15 people and everyone loved it! What a great recipe and thank you for sharing it with everyone!
Making this tomorrow night, so excited! Trying to be 100% Paleo here and can you suggest a substitute for the beans? Maybe asparagus? We do not like broccoli or artichokes, thanks!Also,I'm making a double, should I double the mushrooms? 24 oz of mushrooms seems a lot. Maybe 18 oz?
This recipe is one of my current favorites, but this website is driving me freaking bonkers! The page keeps jumping around to show me various ads and as you can imagine, trying to scroll back to the actual recipe is difficult when your hands are covered in chicken. Gah!
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Made this tonight - decided to serve it over noodles, as I did not think it would be satisfying without them. Was I wrong ! Soo much better without the noodles ! Delicious!
This was great! There was quite a bit of sauce so I served it in bowls with a piece of toasted garlic bread in the bottom. Delicious! Found the recipe on Pinterest and hope to try more from your site. Thanks!
Are the sundried tomatoes the kind that are packed in oil, or are they the dried kind? Can't wait to make this!
I used the dried kind!
I made this for dinner last night. My husband and I enjoyed it very much. I followed your recipe exactly and it was delicious. We are having the leftovers tonight. Will definitely make this again!
So glad to hear it, Georgie!
So happy I came across your recipe on Pinterest! Sounds delicious and perfect for the 100 degree days we've been having this summer. Have you ever made this as a freezer meal? I've never thawed beans or mushrooms before - wondering if they'd have a not-so-nice texture.Thanks!
This is the first recipe I found on Pinterest and saved it because I love Tuscan flavors. I usually don't use recipes, but my doctor recently put me on a low-carb diet to get my weight and blood sugar down. The worst thing about the diet is that I LOVE pasta! While beans are still a carb, they are better than pasta or bread; so, thought I'd give this a try... I'm semi-retired, but my wife still works; so I do a lot of the cooking. Just finished cooking the dish and it's still simmering. She isn't home yet and I'm resisting the temptation to start without her! All those great fresh Tuscan aromas filling the house! Mangia!
Carbs are so hard to give up!! I love beans because they are complex and digest slowly, keeping you full longer and reducing cravings for dessert :) If only beer was carb-free!
I made this tonight. It is very good! we have leftovers so tomorrow night I'm going to have this over brown rice. It's a definite keeper. thanks!
So glad you like it, Susan!
Making this right now for my hubby and I! We're not fans of mushrooms so I subbed Eggplant and zucchini (first time cooking eggplant! DX ) I'm treating them like your mushrooms so they don't get soggy. Here's to praying the Veggie-phobe Hubs will eat it!
This was delicious, very easy and both of my kids (1&3) loved it! I didn't add the sugar though as it didn't seem necessary and tasted great! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this dish. It was delicious! I truly enjoyed it and my fairly picky SO enjoyed it as well. Although I've never been, I felt like I was in Italy while eating this. Yum!
Awesome, Tiffany!! That's the whole point of this blog - so glad you liked it!
I made this tonight - delicious! The changes I made: I added a splash of white wine after sautéing the garlic and sun dried tomatoes and didn't add the sugar. Also, I used oil packed sun dried tomatoes and I served it over noodles. I will definitely make this again!
I made this tonight for dinner, following the exact recipe. It was very tasty and my husband loved it, too. This is a good healthy dish.
Made this tonight for my son & husband. Everyone loved it! I served it over brown rice with steamed green beans on the side. My husband commented that it would make a good vegetarian meal without the chicken. (He really liked the sauce on the rice.) Will definitely be making this again soon. Thank-you!
This was so unbelievably good! My picky parents loved this! I used leeks instead of the garlic and onions to make it fodmap friendly and it was such a huge success. Thanks for the recipe! I will be making this over and over again.
The dish looked very inviting and it did not disappoint. I cooked this for my wife and daughter and we all agreed that we will enjoy this again in the future. We tried this with buttered garlic French bread and it was a good combination. Clean up was a breeze. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Definitely look awesome, I will make this recipe at home on my vacations because my kids love Tuscan chicken.
Easiest dinner ever! We loved it.


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In 'Missionaries,' Phil Klay Explores How 'Wars Bleed Into Each Other'
National Book Award winner Phil Klay's new novel Missionaries takes readers around the world, from the chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan to turmoil in rural Colombia.
"The more that I thought about the way that we wage war in the 21st century, the more it seemed to me insufficient to just talk about one theater of conflict," Klay explains. "I wanted to talk about the ways these wars bleed into each other."
Along the way, readers meet a U.S. Army special forces medic, a burned-out foreign correspondent, a Colombian military officer and a cascade of other fascinating characters whose allegiances seem to change weekly, from narcos to rebels to militias.
"When you can have a Colombian mercenary on an Emirati air base who is viewing a Yemeni tribesman through the camera on a Chinese-made drone before killing him with an American-supplied missile, you know, you're in a different stage of warfare where things get very, very complicated," Klay says.
On the violent scenes in the novel
I never want to put violence in simply for shock value. ... At the same time, if you're talking about these kind of conflicts and you're not giving the reader anything that will make them uncomfortable, if you're not showing the violence, then you're also lying.
I never want to put violence in simply for shock value. I think it's very easy, especially with a novel about war to descend into a kind of trauma porn. You know, I don't think that's ethical. At the same time, if you're talking about these kind of conflicts and you're not giving the reader anything that will make them uncomfortable, if you're not showing the violence, then you're also lying.
Some of the images that I do choose to show, they're images that I show, because they are things that stay with the characters and haunt them — whether it's a particularly horrible public execution done by right wing paramilitaries, or, with the American Special Forces character, this moment where he's caring for one of his fellow soldiers who's been grievously injured.
On what Lisette, the foreign correspondent, is she's looking for when she gets to Colombia.
She's become burned out covering Afghanistan and she sort of toggles between this idealism and sense of purpose and the real importance of the work she's doing, with the lack of interest back home. And she heads back home, but then very quickly, she wants that sense of purpose again. She wants that sense of meaning. She still wants to be a war correspondent.
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That whole region has been tied up in conflict his whole life, whether it's between right wing paramilitaries, or left wing guerrilla, or drug traffickers. And the presence of the Colombian state ... has never provided that much order — but the state can dole out violence.
But I was concerned with, well, what happens in the regions where the violence is done afterwards and Abel is the person who has to live through the aftermath. What changes in the power structure of that region? How does it reshape things in ways that people who are operating sort of at a higher level — who ... go in, do violence and then go home — that they're unaware of. And so that raid leads to a whole set of changes in this region that end up drawing in the four main characters of the novel together.
On avoiding overly simple "good guy" and "bad guy" narratives
One of the things that in theory we have learned intellectually from the past 20 years of American wars is the limits of the application of violence, the way in which the use of force can lead to second and third order consequences that we never anticipated — and that can often be disastrous. And in theory, we've learned the necessity of bringing in other tools of American power, nonviolent tools — but in practice, what have we built?
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5:00 AM PDT 8/14/2007 by Eric J. Lyman , AP
ROME -- The international arm of Italian state broadcaster RAI on Monday announced that it will begin working under a new agreement that will allow its signal to be carried by more satellite providers and will split current programming among three separate channels.
RAI International did not release budget figures related to the initiative, but it is clear the plan has some friends in high places. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi called the new initiative "essential" in comments that appeared in the local media.
"I consider this new course for RAI International essential," Prodi said. "It is in the best interest of Italian communities abroad and it is also essential for presenting Italy to foreigners as a serious country with complex issues."
Two new channels that will begin broadcasting soon will focus on Italian news and Italian entertainment and fiction programs. A third channel, to be added within a year, will focus on sports.
Under director Piero Badaloni, RAI International is continuing its development as an autonomous entity with its own programming schedule rather than one that simply rebroadcasts programming from the broadcaster's three local Italian networks.
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Mendon és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat d'Ohio. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 697 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Mendon tenia 697 habitants, 262 habitatges, i 190 famílies. La densitat de població era de 708,2 habitants per km².

Dels 262 habitatges en un 34,7% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 58,8% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 8% dones solteres, i en un 27,1% no eren unitats familiars. En el 22,5% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 10,3% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,66 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,1.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 28% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 9% entre 18 i 24, un 29% entre 25 i 44, un 21,4% de 45 a 60 i un 12,6% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 34 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 97,6 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 34.231 $ i la renda mediana per família de 39.722 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 31.563 $ mentre que les dones 22.727 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 15.301 $. Aproximadament el 2,6% de les famílies i el 5,3% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Viles d'Ohio
Comtat de Mercer (Ohio)

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The sponsor of a marijuana banking bill scheduled for a key committee vote in Congress this week is moving to amend the legislation to add provisions requiring the federal government to track and issue recommendations on how to expand financial services to minority-owned and women-owned cannabis businesses, among other changes.
The bill, the the Secure And Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, is slated to be voted on by the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday afternoon.
In general the proposal seeks to protect banks from bring punished by federal regulators for working with marijuana businesses that are legal under state laws—a key goal for the cannabis industry, the lack of which is seen as a major roadblock to certainty, security and growth.
Current policy makes many financial institutions reluctant to work with marijuana growers, processors or sellers out of fear of violating money laundering or drug laws. And that has forced many cannabis businesses to operate on a cash-only basis, which can make them targets for robberies.
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The amendment also deletes a requirement for federal banking regulators to issue guidance and procedures to banks but maintains a related provision directing the Financial Institutions Examination Council to develop the guidance.
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Kurt Selles is on track to become the next director of Back to God Ministries International (BTGMI), the media ministry of the Christian Reformed Church.
Selles was nominated by the board of BTGMI and was endorsed by the denomination's Board of Trustees at its recent meeting. His appointment will have to be ratified by Synod 2012, the annual leadership meeting of the CRC.
Selles is a former missionary with Christian Reformed World Missions, serving in Taiwan and China. He teaches missions at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Ala.
"I'm humbled and honored to have the opportunity to work with the BTCMI team to proclaim the gospel," Selles said. "I look forward to building on the collaboration that is already there."
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Germany has some of the loveliest Christmas and New Year's Eve traditions anywhere in the world. But one of my favorites has yet to catch on in this country, perhaps because of its daunting name: Feuerzangenbowle (literally "fire tong punch"). Pronounced "FOY-yer-tsahng-en-bowl-eh," this drink brings serious Gemütlichkeit to any gathering.
First, and most important, be sure your fire extinguisher has been recently recharged and is within easy reach. Feuerzangenbowle, like most great party drinks, involves an element of risk.
To make this delicious and heady punch, you set a cone of rum-soaked sugar aflame over some mulled wine. It melts into the wine, sweetening and strengthening it. Since you're adding a fair amount of sugar into the punch, it's best to use a very dry red wine. This year I used a 2010 Venta Morales Tempranillo, because that's what I had lying around, but I usually opt for an inexpensive Bordeaux.
It's also important to use a rum of the appropriate strength. A Rhum Agricole with around 53% alcohol, like Chauffe-Cœur from the island of Martinique, works quite well and flambées relatively easily (purchased for $27 at Andersonville Wine & Spirits, tel. 773-769-0858). Do not — and I can't stress this enough — do not use Bacardi 151. The first time I attempted to prepare Feuerzangenbowle without the aid of German friends, I made this mistake. The flames almost reached the ceiling, dazzling my guests, horrifying my roommate and singeing my eyebrows.
Add in the cinnamon sticks and pour in the wine. Slowly heat the mixture to just below a simmer — do not let it boil. Be sure the orange halves are clove-side down, so that all the cloves are in contact with the wine. You could just toss the cloves in, rather than sticking them in the peels, but then it's much easier for them to end up in someone's mug.
Once the wine is heated, I like to place four pot holders on the table and set an old cookie sheet on top. With the Feuerzangenbowle pot on the cookie sheet, it's less likely flaming rum will end up on your table.
Set a Feuerzange (sugar tray) onto the pot, and lay the Zuckerhut (sugar cone) in the tray. These two items can be difficult to find. If you live near a German deli or specialty shop, they will likely carry sugar cones this time of year. If not, you can order them online from GermanDeli.com.
Even if you can find a sugar cone, you will also need a Feuerzange in which to lay the cone over your pot of wine. These specialized metal trays can be even more difficult to find, unfortunately. GermanDeli.com sells them here, or you can try GermanGrocery.com.
Should you fail to obtain a Zuckerhut and a Feuerzange, do not despair. Instead, purchase a box of sugar cubes and a sturdy metal sieve you don't mind throwing away (be sure the sieve has a tab opposite the handle, so that you can lay it across a pot). Place the sugar cubes in the sieve and lay it across the Feuerzangenbowle pot.
Pour some rum over the sugar. If you have a sugar cone, turn it over so that you soak both sides. Gather your party guests, and light the sugar cone on fire. It helps to have a lighter with a long neck, so that your hands are as far from the flames as possible. The flames will last a little while, but it's necessary to spoon additional rum over the sugar cone from time to time to keep it burning and melting. Again, a spoon with a long handle is best, so that you're not too close to the flame.
Do not attempt, in fear, to toss spoonfuls of rum onto the burning sugar. The flames will only be larger (see right), and rum flung from a spoon has a much greater chance of landing on your table, still aflame. It's best to carefully move a rum-filled spoon over the sugar, ignite the rum while it's still in the spoon, and slowly pour it over the sugar.
If your sugar cone goes out before it's fully melted, spoon some more rum over the cone and reignite it with the lighter.
Once the sugar has completely melted into the wine, remove the Feuerzange or sieve, give the punch a stir and ladle into small mugs. A final warning: Feuerzangenbowle is potent stuff — it's easy to become quickly intoxicated.
Happy New Year, and Prost!
FEUERZANGENBOWLE!!!! I love this post and the drink. There are many memories of enjoying a Feuerzangenbowle with friends. It sounds like you've perfected it over time. It is always best to enjoy at a party. Happy New Year!
Thanks! It is a great drink, isn't it? One of my all-time favorites, perhaps because it's always best enjoyed with a group of friends, as you say. Happy New Year to you as well!
Interesting! I never thought to save the sugar to serve on the side. I bet it's pretty tasty, perhaps infused with a bit of rum and caramelization! I'll have to give that a try next year.
Just tasted this drink in Schliersee, Germany christmas market! It packs quite a kick and is delicious! Thanks for the recipe – I will use it at home to celebrate!
Hi Pamela – I'm jealous! I bet the Schliersee Christmas market is lovely! I'm glad you enjoyed the drink, and you are most welcome for the recipe. Have fun, and happy holidays!
You can easily make your own sugar cone. Buy standard granulated sugar and fill a mug with the sugar. Next, pour the sugar from the mug into a large mixing bowl. Wet your hands. Using only the water remaining on your hands knead the sugar, working the moisture through the sugar in the bowl. You will notice that the sugar will start to stick but it will not dissolve. Pack the sugar back into the mug tightly, turn the mug upside down on a baking tray, and tap the top of the mug. The sugar will fall out onto the tray as a perfect cone. Bake the cone on very low heat for about an hour.
Thank you for the tip! Actual German sugar cones can be a pain to find, so it's great to know that there's a way to make them ourselves. I'll have to give this technique a try!
Hi Geoff — Thank you for the tip – much appreciated!